Through a painting, we can see the whole world. - Hans Hofmann

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Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Hans Hofmann

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Hans Hofmann (21 March 1880 – 17 February 1966) was one of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York. Hofmann originally came from Germany where he experienced the new art and so he connected European with modern American abstract art. He had strong influence as an art-teacher and writer on the younger American abstract artists after 1940.

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Alternative Names: Hans Georg Albert Hofmann • Johann Georg Albert Hofmann • Johann Hofmann • Hans Hoffman • Hofmann

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I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.

The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

as quoted in Jackson Pollock, Ellen G Landau, p. 259, as quoted in Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, Ines Janet Engelmann, Prestel Verlag Munich, 2007, p. 66

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